[WayneS]

Actually, children can still take foods containing peanuts to school, but ONLY after the entire family goes through a rigorous background check and permitting process.

Additionally, any peanut-containing comestible must be kept in a locked, hermetically sealed container until it is time for it to be consumed. Even then the peanut-containing comestible may be removed from the container and eaten only after a written 'Notice of Imminent Consumption' has been provided to every other person in the lunch room. Upon receipt of the 'Notice of Imminent Consumption', each person in the lunch room (whether or not said person has a peanut allergy) has the option to either stay and finish lunch, leave the lunch room so as to avoid the peanut-containing comestible, or to file a ‘Stay of Consumption’ with the lunch room monitor.

If a 'Stay of Consumption' is filed by any other person in the lunch room (whether or not said person has a peanut allergy), then the child wishing to ingest the peanut-containing comestible is required to report to the 'peanut table' before breaking the seal on the container in which the peanut-containing comestible is stored. The ‘peanut table’ is located in a secure area of the school which has been constructed with a separate air handling system from the rest of the building.

In reality, though, it’s probably easier to just NOT send your kid to school with a peanut butter sandwich.

;-)

[WaterBoard]

But that is a luxury it can no longer afford, according to the Department of Education

That is a bold faced lie.

Fire all the non-working NYC teachers who are idled in 'rubber rooms' because they are too dangerous or incompetent to teach.

Due to Teacher Union rules, you can't fire these people, Tax payers have to keep paying them to do nothing.

"Because the teachers collect their full salaries of $70,000 or more, the city Department of Education estimates the practice costs the taxpayers $65 million a year. The department blames union rules.

The teachers generally spend months or even years in the so-called rubber rooms playing Scrabble, reading or surfing the Internet while still collecting full salaries of $70,000 a year or more. "